{"id":54342,"date":"2024-11-01T05:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=54342"},"modified":"2024-11-01T05:03:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T05:03:17","slug":"withdraw-tax-bill-for-wider-consultation-nec-urges-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/01\/withdraw-tax-bill-for-wider-consultation-nec-urges-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Withdraw Tax Bill for Wider Consultation, NEC Urges Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Economic Council (NEC), including members of the Nigerian Governors Forum, has recommended that President Bola Tinubu withdraws the Tax Reforms Bill currently in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The suggestion, discussed at NEC&#8217;s 144th meeting in Abuja, aims to allow more extensive stakeholder consultations and consensus building.<\/p>\n<p>Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde noted the importance of achieving a broader understanding and agreement on the bill among Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>While the Federal Government sees the reforms as a way to streamline tax processes, certain regional leaders have expressed reservations.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed reforms, initiated in August 2023, follow an in-depth review of existing tax laws.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Economic Council (NEC), including members of the Nigerian Governors Forum, has recommended that President Bola Tinubu withdraws the Tax Reforms Bill currently in the National Assembly. The suggestion, discussed at NEC&#8217;s 144th meeting in Abuja, aims to allow more extensive stakeholder consultations and consensus building. Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde noted the importance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":54343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54354,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54342\/revisions\/54354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}